Creator Compass

5 ideas on creativity from a pile of leaves:

• Be weird. Heaven invented weird.

• Be stunning. You don’t have to try—truth and presence are naturally stunning.

• Be carefree. Let gravity (God’s timing) carry you where you’re meant to land.

• Be available. Even a fallen leaf can change someone’s perspective.

• Be collected. Add your spark to someone else’s

🍂Leaf-pile Thinking

When shared ideas reveal the season we’re in

I took a photo of a cluster of fallen leaves on the sidewalk—different colors, different shapes, different trees—and it struck me as a perfect picture of what happens when people share ideas.

Each leaf has its own story:

its own tree, its own chemistry, its own timing in the season.

Some

Moments of inspiration are unpredictable.
But environments that produce inspiration can be built on purpose.

Unbound exploration is permission to follow the rabbit

Greg McKeown said in his book Essentialism:

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration. Given that, it should hardly be surprising that key breakthroughs in thinking have taken place in times of play. Hallowell writes:

Stop squeezing the lemon (On making space)

Anne-Laure’s line is a wake-up call disguised as a whisper:

Make space for unstructured creativity.

Not “make a masterpiece.”
Not “write something good.”
Not “come up with insight.”

Just space.

And space doesn’t mean an hour-long ritual with candles, tea, and Gregorian chants.
Sometimes it’s literally five minutes